Altering Our Perception
“I see one function of the museum as being a space for experimentation.” Artist Carsten Höller presents acclaimed installations and relational aesthetics.
“I see one function of the museum as being a space for experimentation.” Artist Carsten Höller presents acclaimed installations and relational aesthetics.
Roy DeCarava took up photography in the 1940s as an information-gathering tool to help with his painting. The results were groundbreaking.
February is LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK. From protest photography to untold stories, here’s our pick of key shows and digital resources to explore.
Are there too many images in the world? A new show explores mass media excess and image over-saturation spanning from the 1920s to today.
How do we imagine the future? Designers, visual artists and researchers respond to the experience of living in the anxiety of the present.
Bill Brandt’s photography has often been perceived as “sinister”, capturing dark scenes across turbulent decades of the 20th century.
New Contemporaries continues to play a key role in art from the UK: a story of towering medicine cabinets and potent portraits of identity.
From close-up photography to digital world-building, contemporary artists are always building on the legacies of minimalism and abstraction.
The new print issue of Aesthetica is all about points of view: idea generation and a developing a greater sense of perspective. Read a preview here.
Laura Perrucci and Matteo De Santis demonstrate a fresh take on collage. Bubble wrap and printed words lie over cloudless blue skies.
Ellen Jantzen stretches, cuts and pastes an array of organic samples, drawing attention to the vast editing processes that define 21st century media.
Diasporic legacies, historical figures, baroque designs and contemporary fashion unite in a series of studio portraits by Omar Victor Diop.
Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous and damaging substances. Mandy Barker’s disquieting images demonstrate the extent of the emergency.
Tobias Schnorpfeil is a German engineer and tech founder whose compelling digital renders utilise data sets to build up colour, texture and material.
Zhang Ahuei’s compositions include unexpected elements that are both unsettling and alluring, blending the real and surreal; fashion and fine art.
Thomas Jordan’s Instant Honey series offers a glimpse of the Midwest at sunset. Lilacs blend seamlessly into burnt oranges and inky blues.
Glenn Homann explores the developments of iPhone cameras, producing abstract snapshots that turn Brisbane into a saturated wonderland.
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, probes 40 years of image-making in North America and Canada, alongside the concepts of veracity and narrative.
A new collection of Black photography spans the Atlantic Ocean, highlighting neither protest nor celebration, but intimate documentation.